Short interest in Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 10.77M to 10.18M. This put 0.8% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Medtronic gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Medtronic's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 5.27M shares traded per day, it would take 1.93 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.